1022: Two Shadows

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s poem is Two Shadows by Maurice Manning.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “I want someone in my daughter’s life who will sing to her when she is most full of doubts and uncertainties, when storms inevitably arrive. Today’s poem gorgeously anticipates the day ahead when our children will pursue their own loves, and what magic we might model for them.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

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0:00.0	Slowdown listeners are invited to give the gift of poetry this holiday season.
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0:14.0	Visit Poetry magazine.org slash Bogo, that's BOGO.
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0:23.4	To gift yourself and a friend 10 issues of contemporary poetry sent right to your door.
0:29.8	Subscribe today at Poetry magazine.org
0:33.2	slash Bogo.
0:35.0	I'm Major Jackson and this is the year. I am thrilled. My daughter is arriving with her partner who we will
1:06.9	get to meet for the first time. I've been looking forward to this moment. No, not looking forward to meeting him, but to
1:16.9	pretending to be the tough, overly protective, no one is worthy of my daughter
1:21.8	kind of dad.
1:24.0	But I have a feeling that act will last only so long,
1:28.0	and I'll quickly be laughing it up with the person of her dreams.
1:33.1	When Anastasia was little,
1:35.4	she and I drove from Michigan to Vermont.
1:38.2	As we approached Mohawk Valley on I-90
1:41.3	through upstate New York, a
1:43.2	ginormous thunder strike pierced the sky.
1:46.7	Still gray clouds and lightning made the drive fearsome.
1:51.2	In her sweet nine-year-old voice she said,
1:55.0	Dad, I'm scared.
1:58.0	I told her a storm was merely passing over,
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